Agent White

Actually, yeah, no access to the Shadow Shard is really not a hindrance. The Shard zones have no actual story outside of the 4 Grueling task forces. There's a small arc that shows you around the place, but then it just devolves into endless repeatable missions. Villains aren't missing out because Heroes tend to skip the place as it is anyway.

Virtue always has too much yiffing.

There'll be more ways eventually, it's just going to take time as things come out. If i24 doesn't come out with a new slot and new iXP for it, it's likely whatever incarnate content well have advanced iXP. Or maybe an alternate method for earning it, like a new component conversion or something (like burning common components? Or something).

New stuff is being added, just slowly, as with anything else. Redside works on an economy of zones because every redside zone is basically a combo city zone and hazard zone, which works out a bit better than the separation of the two blue side, where you have defunct hazard zones people only go to for badges or mission doors.

Devs have basically said that new content is going to be one of two things, either co-op (ex: First Ward, Night Ward, Dark Astoria) or 'equal' content, that is, when blue side gets something exclusive, red side gets something too.

For example, the Twinshot/Graves arcs, the Steel Canyon/Cap Au Diable arcs, Mortimer Kal/Admiral Sutter taskforces.

So stuff is coming, just not super fast. Though frankly I doubt we're going to see anymore exclusively redside zones anymore. So far if it's a new place to hang out it's going to be co-op, although the zone arcs don't necessarily have to be. Not to say that redside can't see zone revamps, or that blueside zones can't be revamped to co-op (ala Dark Astoria). But I don't really see any new zones being created exclusively for villains, since zones cost so much in development time and resources.

And it's true there is no Maria Jenkins style arc for redside, the same can be said of the Patron arcs for blueside, there's no equivalent. It's just one of those pros/cons about redside vs blueside. Frankly I think both sides are severely lacking in content options when it comes to the late game. Because of how higher levels require increasingly larger amounts of XP you can burn through all the available arcs without topping out, or you quickly run into repeat content on multiple characters. I'm honestly growing tired of the Peregrine contacts just because I've hit end game with enough characters I've run all the contacts multiple times because there just isn't anything else. Only to be compounded by Dark Astoria (though that's less of a problem because I -really- enjoy that).

As it is, the content in the game is just pyramid shaped. Lots and lots and lots of options in the lower ranges, but as you travel up the chain it gets fewer and far between or a similar amount doesn't have the same pay off because of higher XP requirements so you end up going through more of it, if not all of it, before moving onto to still higher range stuff. I'd personally prefer if the game was top heavier, more to do in the late game, and it is slowly improving, just, slowly being the keyword (and while trials are lategame content, I don't feel they really add as much to the end game simply because of how quick they are).

So redside -is- evolving and getting more toys, it's just taking a while.

Yeah was thinking the 2nd build idea too. Just not sure how much cash I want to sink into him if I want to IO out. Dunno yet!

And I took is as a kind of thematic pic too. He's a mage from an alt dimension and twists the elements to his will, controlling plants and being cruel tossing fire about, so adding ice rounds out the elemental feel of him nicely.

We'll see though, but yes fire is -quite- tempting. Still I wanted that LotG mule too, but this is my first dominator so I'll see how I like him once I get him to 50 and incarnate him out and if I wanna try a different build.

Thanks for the input guys!

The author, of course.

How is this a technical issue or bug? It seems like an opinion and request for discussion.

And have to agree, the set effects for this are gorgeous and look very watery.

To be fair, 99% of the questions and answers are nothing of value. It's usually like "When is Water Blast/Bio Armor/Upcoming Set/Feature/Issue coming" answered with "Soon" or "When can we have feature X" or "Why do you guys hate villains" or "Why can't I buy X" or "When can we have costume part X or power concept Y" etc.

They won't trash bases though. People have had years to build them up, there are some truly impressive creations out there and the studio has pretty much said they don't want to upset players by flushing all that work down the tubes.

Love it or hate it, the old base system is, at least for the time being, here to stay, along with all of the implications that brings.

Honestly, I have the feeling if 'personal housing' ever becomes a thing it'll be an either/or thing. Either you have a lair or you have a supergroup, but not both.

Brickstown has no GMs.

Maybe a DE ambush from another 50? Don't know.

I hit 41 and ended up going with Ice. I may still respec as I'm likely to reconfig some power choices, but my basic motivation was just having only 4 power picks left and Ice having most of what I wanted while having something I didn't feel bad about skipping (hibernate) whereas the other pools, especially fire, I wanted ALL of it. XD

Thanks for the advice though everyone

Just make sure you knock first.